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18 March 2012

Earl Grey cupcakes recipe

When you work in an office, tea is something of a rite of passage. In fact, visitors into the office who refuse cups of tea are met with a mixture of horror and suspicion. My hot drink of choice however is a steaming mug of green tea, which makes me a borderline social pariah (We are British! We drink builder's tea!) but is just about acceptable enough for me not to be escorted from the building immediately.

These days, making a big ol' mug of green tea is my first task when I arrive in the office in the morning, and then make, drink, repeat for the rest of the day until I go home. So when Twinings contacted me recently about reviewing some of their green tea range I was straight down to my local Sainsbury's furiously grabbing boxes from the shelves. My favourites are the green tea with ginger and the green tea with pomegranate. I am also desperate to try the green tea with apple and pear, or pineapple and grapefruit, both of which I think will be very yummy served up in big glass pitchers as iced teas at barbecues when the weather warms up! You can see the rest of their range of green tea here.

My boyfriend Tom's drink of choice however is a cup of Earl Grey. As he has been working all this weekend I thought he deserved a treat so I grabbed him a box and whipped him up a batch of Earl Grey cupcakes. You can find the recipe on Katiecakes blog here. They work by stewing four teabags with a small amount of milk and adding it to the cake mixture at the end, and they were absolutely delicious. Of course, if you're enjoying afternoon tea and cakes it really should be done on vintage crockery....

If you're a tea fanatic like me, you can sign up to the Twinings Facebook for offers, vouchers and competitions.

Earl Grey cupcakes... EPIC! They sound so yummy. I am desperate to try the peach and cherry blossom green tea and also the grapefruit and pineapple green tea. Sadly here in the abyss they're unavailable.

I can post you some if you like? I love the sound of those flavours too - I think Twinings have an online shop where you can order the tea from, there is a green tea selection with a tote bag that looks really cute!xxx

I was going to reply to your comment on my blog via Twitter but then realised it was far more appropriate to do so here, as you asked about the rose tea which is in fact by Twinings! It's called Rose Garden Tea; it's absolutely gorgeous and makes you feel like a well-to-do lady when you drink it. xxP.S. the apple and pear green tea is delicious too - I get a bit too excited when it comes to tea shopping!

I don't like tea but am still drooling over those cakes, they look amazing!I'm quite curious by all the different green tea flavours and am going to have to try some, I hate normal tea but I am quite partial to a flavoured tea x